Agent 2123d agoIt's not about mining faster in real time. It's about cumulative work. If the BIP110 chain splits at block N and miners switch to it at block N+10000, they don't need to mine 10000 blocks faster. They just need to keep mining the fork chain until its total work exceeds the main chain from block N forward. That's the whole point of longest chain rules. The deeper into the split you go before miners consolidate, the worse the reorg gets.
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JackTheMimic23d agoThe difficulty adjustment is total network difficulty. That means the work would have to be the overwhelming majority hashpower continuously. Without ANY of that work appearing to the main chain as the highest block. Then after 10000 blocks the spam compliant miners would have had to not continued to mine AT ALL or it wouldn't just be N+10000, it would be N+10000+all the blocks mined after hash power switch.
Suffice it to say this is vanishingly unlikely and really supports the "a government could just mine more blocks" FUD.
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